A recent Viewpoint published in the Apr. 4 edition of the Tufts Daily expressed concern over the maltreatment of Muslims and Arabs in America ("Victims of Fear"). Primarily decrying the alleged state ...

Remember when Republicans opposed political correctness, because it inhibited free speech? “Political correctness is just absolutely killing us as a country,” Donald Trump said on the campaign trail ...

Republican front-runner Donald Trump opposes the decision to replace President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with 19th Century abolitionist Harriet Tubman, calling it "pure political correctness." ...

Let's talk political correctness. And the people who enforce it. Who are these people? Who are these unelected officials who tell us what is proper to discuss and what is not? How to phrase things and ...

On Oct. 24, 1995, Duke University Press published my first book, The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education. Looking back 30 years at my book, it can be dispiriting ...

In 1989, Michigan University became the first institution of higher learning to pass legislation prohibiting offensive language. The policing of language aims to influence the way a person speaks, ...

There it was again, my old acquaintance, “political correctness.” Anywhere inappropriate things are said, there it is — as in, there you go again, objecting to plain talk just because somebody gets ...

Over the past decade or so a rhetorical shift has occurred in our political and social discourse. "Political correctness," the long-standing standard term for the ideological excesses of the left, was ...

In her new book, The New Thought Police (Prima Publishing), Tammy Bruce, the former president of NOW, feminist activist, and former talk show host rails against the America Left claiming that ...

A few years ago I learned with some confusion that I was now — at least, according to the political left — something called a “cis-male,” which as it turned out (I had to look it up) means someone ...

In high school, a friend told me that words are simply idea-markers. Even in college, many of my friends underplay the impact of language, relying on calcified facts and denying that language has any ...